999 bug

I come across a bug where the home files (from webconverger-base) were
chowned as 999:
http://webconverger.org/todo/
I've since discovered in lh_chroot_hacks:
chown -R --quiet 999:999 chroot/home/${LH_USERNAME}
I want this removed. :) Wondering why it was there in the first place
instead of 1000?
After searching around, is it something to do with fuse?